There must be someone in the area with a nice large rear bumper on their pickup truck to make sure those dangerous signs bend over for the safety of the public.

wife: Honey a stop sign.husband: shiat!!!! [screeching tires on the pavement]husband: whos the moptherfarker bastard that put a stop sign at a non-existent intersection??

Next day,pedestrian: oh look a stop sign. this must be a safe place to cross.car: thump thump.police: well you know this is not a cross walk mr pedestrian. See, no lines designating a crosswalk.police: mr car driver, you really should of stopped, but i am too afraid to write up the town council for leaving these dangerous signs here, so heres you ticket for failure to stop, which the Judge may throw out due to incompetence of the town council and incompetence of the road works.Police: damn it, time for the bar after this shift.

I live 1 block from that stop sign. There is a blind driveway just over the crest of the hill and 16 year olds like to jump their cars there too. Keep the sign or lower the hill to make it less dangerous.

Ah, a debate on the usefulness of virtual intersections. How interesting. The residents may have a point.

Brantgoose modestly proposes: Replace the non-existent intersection with a virtual school or hospital. Set up a fake crosswalk with some dummy children and a dummy Crossing guard. Park some fake police cars around the neighborhood.

It's all good in the name of traffic-slowing in middle class residential areas.

Well, maybe not a hospital. Somebody might need medical care some day and looking for a non-existent hospital would waste time and possibly result in harm and lawsuits.

Wonder why they don't put up Quiet! Library! signs like they do with hospitals? It might work!

not2conceited:I live 1 block from that stop sign. There is a blind driveway just over the crest of the hill and 16 year olds like to jump their cars there too. Keep the sign or lower the hill to make it less dangerous.

/DNRTFA

Looking at things on Google Maps, unless that blind alley is also camouflaged, there isn't shiat over the crest of that hill except trees on both sides of the road. Then again, the pics could have been taken before said alley existed. Still, lowering the speed limit fixes the problem, assuming that there is even a problem.

That generally doesn't work either. Drivers (in general) drive at the speed in which they feel comfortable driving, which is why speed limits are (in theory) set partly based on driver behavior. Posting a lower speed sign without 1) changing the design parameters of the road (lane width, shoulder width, lane markings, speed bumps, etc...) or 2) increased enforcement, will likely not change the actual traffic speeds at all.

There are two ways to slow people down: 1) physical engineering, such as making a 40 degree curve in a previously straight road, or adding speed tables, and 2) speed monitoring and enforcement.

other then the driveway at the bottom of the hill i don't see a problem here with removing the stop sign. doesn't look like really anything of interest across the road there other then some woods. if there were some businesses or some more houses directly across instead of woods it might be an issue of crossing. if it is that big of an issue have them lower the speed limit in that stretch.

I bet that there are only a couple of local residents trying to keep the signs, but who are being loud and obnoxious about it. Maybe this city should offer them a deal: either we remove the signs and post occasional speed traps on the street OR we leave the signs but don't guarantee that traffic cops will ever be assigned to the area.

Not that I ever thought about it before, but I can't think of a reason why stop signs need to be limited to intersections. There could, conceivably, be other reasons to want traffic to stop or to make drivers feel momentarily guilty or thrilled by just blowing through them.

SomeoneDumb:Not that I ever thought about it before, but I can't think of a reason why stop signs need to be limited to intersections. There could, conceivably, be other reasons to want traffic to stop or to make drivers feel momentarily guilty or thrilled by just blowing through them.

SomeoneDumb:Not that I ever thought about it before, but I can't think of a reason why stop signs need to be limited to intersections. There could, conceivably, be other reasons to want traffic to stop or to make drivers feel momentarily guilty or thrilled by just blowing through them.

I thought that was the whole point of speed bumps, actually. Most people slow down to 2 mph to crest them, especially the rice rockets. Who then floor it to the next one.

/Some real doozies here, but my car is so beat to hell that I just ignore them.//Stop signs just piss people off. Everyone floors it after one.

foxyshadis:I thought that was the whole point of speed bumps, actually. Most people slow down to 2 mph to crest them, especially the rice rockets. Who then floor it to the next one.

There is a road in Grand Blanc, MI that has speed bumps to keep traffic speed down to residential. I keep it at 15mph on that road just so I don't have to slow down for the bumps, regardless of the impatient driver behind me that wants to race to the next bump. The stretch is only a half mile, so completely pointless to rush.

It looks like some prankster uprooted a sign from its designated intersection and randomly stuck on the side of the road.

"Nobody puts a stop sign at the top of this hill. Some idiot went out to the Army/Navy store, bought himself a stop sign and sits there with spy glasses saying 'Martha, we caught another one'" (probably not exact quote)